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Prof. Hector Abruña gave his talk with charm and wit, he introduced the topic of #electrochemistry and spoke about his search for better catalysts for the future energy system.
For those, who missed the Gerhard Ertl Lecture 2025, we livestreamed the whole ceremony: www.youtube.com/@fritz-haber...
We had a wonderful Award Ceremony on Wednesday, celebrating this year's Gerhard Ertl Lecture with Prof. Hector Abruña who gave an inspiring talk on energy conversion and storage. 🏆💚 Thanks for joining us!
www.fhi.mpg.de/2177847/2025...
#chemistry #catalysis #physics #energy #sustainability
New Advanced Materials study: AI assumes perfect crystals — and might get materials wrong.
With @unibayreuth.bsky.social, @thdept-fhi-mpg.bsky.social & @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social we built a tool detecting real disorder.
Result: >80% of “promising” materials may fail to behave as predicted.
💚 Of course, you may also join the ceremony in the Harnack House (Ihnestr. 16-20, 14195 Berlin).
🌐 More info: www.fhi.mpg.de/2130757/2025...
We're looking forward to this great event!
🎥 Join us live on Youtube for the Ertl Lecture 2025 on December 10 at 4 pm. This year's awardee, Professor Dr Hector Abruna (Cornell University), will give a lecture on "Energy Conversion and Storage: Novel Materials and Operando Methods".
www.youtube.com/@fritz-haber...
Read also the Original Article in Advanced Materials: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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🔬 New microscope can image the invisible! One-atom thick layers of hexagonal boron nitride, an important 2D-material, that is optically transparent can be imaged using the toolbox of nonlinear optics...
Read more: www.fhi.mpg.de/2174926/2025...
#physics #chemistry #sciencenews
We cordially invite you to the 18th Gerhard Ertl Lecture! This year’s awardee Prof. Dr. Héctor D. Abruña will give a talk about "Energy Conversion and Storage: Novel Materials and Operando Methods"
🗓️ December 10, 2025
🕓 4:00 PM
📍 Harnack House, Ihnestr. 16-20, Berlin
www.fhi.mpg.de/2094589/2025...
👏 Congratulations to all innovators! We're so pleased about the success of Spree Monitoring GmbH, whose co-founder Daniel Fontoura Barroso works at the Molecular Physics Department of FHI. The start-up uses ultrasound to monitor the safety of reinforced concrete structures, such as bridges.
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From November 11 to 14, 2025 eight SAB members, two rapporteurs as well as the Vice President of the Max Planck Society stayed over four days to get a broad impression of the institute’s performance.
www.fhi.mpg.de/2172250/2025...
It is time to look back on an exciting November, when the Fritz Haber Institute was visited by its Scientific Advisory Board. We express our heartfelt thanks to everyone involved who made this visit such an insipring and enriching experience! 💚
Read more: www.fhi.mpg.de/2172250/2025...
This study has just been published in Nature Chemistry:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#chemistry #physics #catalysis
💡 New insights into the function of gold catalysts! A research team from #HZB and #FHI has uncovered how carbonate molecules organize water layers on the surface of gold, thus directly influencing their CO2 conversion capability during #electrocatalysis.
🌐 Read more: www.fhi.mpg.de/2169513/2025...
Proud to support Berlin PostDoc Day 2025 within @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social!
Highlights? 10 FHI participants, engaging workshops on storytelling, networking and more, plus vibrant discussions and excellent networking opportunities!
#FHI #PostDocDay #BerlinScienceWeek
👏 We're pleased and proud to announce that four researchers from the FHI belong to the world's most cited according to the analysis by Clarivate: Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya & Dr. Janis Timoshenko & Dr. Arno Bergmann & Prof. Robert Schlögl. Congratulations to all!
www.fhi.mpg.de/2167843/2025...
🚀 FHI Alumna Antonia Herzog was appointed a professor at DTU in her early thirties - an impressive career. She describes how she achieved this career step and encourages young female researchers to keep going.
Read more: www.fhi.mpg.de/2161432/2025...
#WomenInSTEM #ScienceNeedsWomen #StayCurious
🎉We're happy and proud that the director of our Theory Department, Prof. Karsten Reuter, is part of a team that secured one ERC Synergy Grant: #MAGNESIS: Magnetically Enhanced Electrocatalysis.
Read more about the planned research project: www.fhi.mpg.de/2157238/2025...
Congratulations! In the current call of the European Research Council, Max Planck researchers have secured five Synergy Grants. Together with the University of Cambridge, we are among the top three most successful #research institutions in #Europe ! 🙌 www.mpg.de/25684336/erc... @erc.europa.eu
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News from #UVQuant: New molecular MOT! A team at the FHI has succeeded in loading the first magneto-optical trap (MOT) of a spin-singlet molecule, diatomic AlF. This is the first time a chemically stable molecule has been laser-cooled and trapped.
Read more in Phys Rev Lett: doi.org/10.1103/ksnd...
The paper has just been accepted in Physical Review Letters: journals.aps.org/prl/accepted...
For a full read, check out the pre-print version: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.02266
#physics #quantum #quantumscience #lasertechnology
🔬 For eight years they've worked hard in the lab to realize their dream: A research team from FHI's Molecular Physics Department finally succeded in laser cooling and trapping a chemically stable molecule - breaking new ground in ultracold physics.
➡️ Read more: www.fhi.mpg.de/2160489/2025...
Everyone at our institute is excited in these days: Nov 11-14, our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) will come to evaluate the work done at the FHI.
🫶 This event is very important for all institute members. We wish each other all the best for the presentations, poster sessions & discussion rounds!
🚀 ¡Nueva subvención #ERCSyG para IMDEA Nanociencia!
#MAGNESIS explorará el campo emergente de la magnetoelectrocatalisis ⚡🧲
nanociencia.imdea.org/es/imdea-nan...
🇪🇸 Galán-Mascarós @ICIQ.org
🇩🇪 K. Reuter @fhi-mpg.bsky.social
🇩🇰 J.V. Lauritsen @au.dk
🇪🇸 D. Écija @imdeanano.bsky.social
🌍⚡ Can magnets help us build a cleaner energy future? @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant Funds MAGNESIS to Unlock Magnetically Enhanced Catalysis! 🧲
Press Release: www.fhi.mpg.de/2157238/2025...
ERC Synergy Grant Results: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
🧟🎃 Last Thursday, it got spooky at the institute: PhD students met for the #Halloween Fritz Forum. Christian Feregrino from @molgen.mpg.de gave a lecture on "Flying with hands – The evolution of bat wings" 🦇
The Fritz Forum is a series of colloquia at the #FHI organised by a group of PhD students.
If you want to know more about #UVQuant, check out the website of the project: www.uvquant.eu
#quantum #HorizonEurope #technology #research #innovation #lasertechnology #quantumtechnology
As part of the Horizon 2021 project #UVQuanT, the team of Dr. Stefan Truppe at Imperial College London has demonstrated high-power (500 mW), continuous laser light at 231.7 nm. These new systems will be used for cooling and trapping AlF molecules, a new candidate for ultracold molecular experiments.
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SusMax—the first #MaxPlanck research network dedicated to #sustainable #materials and founded through an interdisciplinary collaboration of six MPIs—is inviting new partners from across the Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de
Call for Proposals: 23 Oct–5 Dec 2025
tinyurl.com/36t22wju
💫 Excitement is in the air and we can already smell the good science brewing! Everything is set for today’s theory poster session at the @fhi-mpg.bsky.social. Looking forward to inspiring science and great discussions! 💫
In the meantime, here’s a glimpse of last year’s highlights!
Congratulations to Dr. Baran Eren on being awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship!! And welcome at the Fritz Haber Institute. We wish Baran all the best for his stay and the planned experiments! 💚 @humboldt-foundation.de @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social
www.fhi.mpg.de/2142366/2025...
